Flag-holder.



G. E. PAINE & L. C. EMERSON.

FLAG HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED MAR-14. 1917.

1,263,277 Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

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FLAG-HOLDER,

Specification of Letters Patent. t t 1 1 913,

Application filed March 14, 1917. Serial No. 154,725.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE E. PAINE and Lonnnnr. C. EMnnsoN, citizens of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flag-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in decorative holders and particularly to holders adapted for holdingflags in position,

a holder having one or more flag stick gripping sockets, whereby each flag will, be firmly held in a'desired position.

It is also an object of the invention to. provide a holder having a body portion, a part of which is off-set with respect to the other part thereof, whereby flag sticks or other like devices may be firmly held in crossed position with respect to each other.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a flag holder having flag receiving sockets formed with frictional flag stick holding means therein for preventing the stick from slipping therefrom.

It is a still further object of the invention to provide a holder having a suspending body portion and provided with socket means to receive the stick or stems of a flag or other article, the said sockets having spring means for pressing upon the-flag stick and gripping them in position.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification: I

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a flag, holder having a body plate or member with sockets thereon for holding one or more flags. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken upon the line 22 of Fig. 1..

Fig. 3 is a detail transverse sectional view through one of the sockets as used upon the device shown in Fig. 1, the section being taken upon the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 1 is a front view showing another form of the device as constructed when the body portion is formed with wire. Fig. 5 is a detail view in edge elevation of one of the sockets employed upon the device shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a detail view in side elevation showing a modified form of the socket means. Fig. 7 is a detail view showing a modified form of suspending hooks employed when the device is made of wire. Fig. 8 is a detail longitudinal sectional view through one of the socket members similar to those employed on the device shown in Fig. 2, but showingthe ends of the said,

'75 -9 is a fragmentary detail sectional view socket members crimped at its ends. ,Fig.

through one member of the device when formed of wire and showing the flag stick receiving socket means inend elevation.

Fig. 10 is a front elevation of a modified. form of the invention having a series of offset bodyportions connected together. Fig.

11 is an elevation of a form of the device having a central enlarged lop for receiving a plurality of flag sticks. Fig. 12 is a detail sectional view taken upon the line 1212 in place when they are to be applied to buildings, walls or other surfaces-or to ve-, hicles, or in fact in any place where they are desired in carrying out the ornamenta tion of anything.

the sticks of which can be held by themselves or in a given relation to other sticks as found desirable. In the drawing, preferred forms of the holder have been illustrated and the details and features of the invention will now be more specifically described, reference being had to the said illustration. In the drawing, 5- indicates the body portion of theholder, which as shown The device is especially adapted for the holdingof one or more flags,

in Fig. 1 preferably consists of a plate having flag holding projections 6. The upper part of the plate is usually reduced in width and is provided with an aperture 7 to engage a nail, hook or other suspending means, the lower end of said aperture at 8 being enlarged to facilitate the introduction of a nail head or the like. If desired also, the upper end of the plate may be turned backwardly and downwardly to form ahook 9 adapted to engage a picture rail or similar support, the hook being of considerable width so that the holder will not readily tip laterally, but keep the flag in the desired position.

When the plate form of the device is used, the plate 5 is preferably off-set at a proper intermediate portion as at 10, to permit the flag stick which is mounted in one of the socket devices 6, to pass beneath or behind another flag stick placed in other socket means 6, as will be readily understood by reference to Figs. 1, and 2 of the drawing.

The socket means employed with this form of the device preferably comprises portions of the metal, of which the holder is formed, rolled or bent into elongated approximately cylindrical form, whereby a tubular extension is provided at one or more places upon the plate 5. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, such tubular extensions are provided and arranged at angles with respect to each other, whereby flag sticks placed therein. will cross each other above the said socket means 6. The rolled or tubular shaped metal may be left open at their outer sides as at 11, and the edge of the material along said open portions may be provided with projecting outwardly curved lips 12,

by which the walls of the tubular material may be sprung outwardly to facilitate the sliding of the sticksinto place within the socket means 6. With an open or slit tube, such as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, it will be understood that if the sticks were too small to properly fit in the sockets, the walls of the tube might be bent inwardly to increase their frictional engagement with the flag stick. Of course, the said walls may spring outwardly to facilitate the reception of sticks, that are rather large, or too large for the socket, without departing from the spirit of the invention. A stick gripping means is also provided within the socket devices and may consist of the bending or denting inwardly of portions of the tubular walls of the socket as at 13, to provide trans verse stick engaging ridges. Such ridges are preferably located intermediate the length of the tubular socket 6 and will bear tightly against the flag sticks for preventing them from slipping in the sockets, with out being positively pushed endwise therethrough, as will be readily understood. Such gripping means can, of course, be applied at more than one place in the walls of the sockets, though one such gripping projection will ordinarily be suflicient. When the flag sticks are only pushed into the upper end of the sockets 6, a: short distance, so that the flags will project a considerable distance above the plate 5, it will be needful to steady the plate and prevent the flags from tipping it, in which case, a hole or recess as at 14 may be provided in the lower part of the plate through which a tack or small nail may be driven, after the plate has been suspended at the top, either by the hole 7 or hook 9, in this manner the swinging or turning of the plate 5 will be prevented. As shown in Fig. 8 of the drawing, instead of having the off-set portion 10 in the plate 5 near the point where one of the flag sticks will extend across the said. plate, the said plate may be off-set near the end of one of the sockets as at 15. The formation of the sockets may also be modified as shown in Fig. 8, by crimping or bending inwardly the ends of the socket walls as shown at 16, thus pro viding frictional biting means for engaging the flag stick and preventing them from slipping after they are located in the desired position in the said sockets. By lifting or pressing outwardly the lip above described upon the split side of the socket, the stick may be released from the crimped frictional edges 16 when they are to be taken out of the socket.

The holder may also be made to advantage from wire as shown in Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 of the drawing. As shown in said Fig. 4, the body portion of the device may be made up of a piece of wire bent approximately double as at 17 The central looped portion will afiord a suspending loop 1.8, and the wire is preferably bent outwardly to connect the lower ends thereof which are formed into socket means adapted to receive the flag sticks. A simple form of socket means is shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 9, where the wire is bent into circular loops 19 and 20, to form stick receiving sockets of about the same length as the tubular socket means 6, hereinbefore described. By bending the wire at 21, at a point intermediate the circular loops 19 and 20, a spring gripping means is provided and ada-ptel to bear against the flag sticks to prevent them from slipping through said loops 19 and 20. In smaller forms of the device, the device if formed of a proper stiifness of wire will be sufficient as just described. However, in larger forms of the device, it is generally preferable to connect the legs of the wire by a bracing means, such for instance, as the plate 22, which extends between the said leg portion of the wire at an intermediate point, and the ends of said plate may be rolled about the wire and soldered or otherwise secured firmly thereto; The brace plate may also be provided with a perforation as at 23, to re ceive a nail or tack, and prevent the swing-v ing of the holder. If desired, the upper end of the wire may be provided with laterally projecting loops 24, as shown in Fig. 7 of the drawing, and the upper end of the structure be bent into hooked form to engage a picture rod or similar elongated suspending means. The laterally arranged loops 24: afford a support on such a picture rod and prevent the holder from swinging or turning means may be varied and provided in different ways, all within the spirit and scope of the invention.

It will be understood, of course, ,that the body portion of the device may be made in Various forms to increase the ornamental appearance of the holder. Thus the plate may be made in the form of an eagle with spread wings, or in the form of a wheel, intermediate of the shape, as shown in Fig. 1. It will be understood also, that the socket means might be provided on either side of the plate without altering the spirit of the invention.

It will be evident that a holder of this kind can be fastened to any kind of a support, as a building or wall, and that it can be readily attached to a motor vehicle, whereby the automobile or other vehicle may be decorated, or adapted for carrying one or more flags.

As shown in Fig. 10, the device may be duplicated, a series of body portions 5 being connected and arranged one below the other for holding a larger number of flags or decorative devices. The device in this form, can be if desired, struck from a single piece of material and be provided with projecting portions adapted to be formed into sockets 27 like those shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. It will be evident that by making the composite holder of any desired length, a number of decorative devices or flags may be held in position and in the desired relation to each other. The successive body portions 5 of the device are ofi'set at 28 as in the form hereinbefore described.

As shown in Fig. 11, a holder may be formed to advantage from a single piece of wire folded with a central projecting loop 29, the loop being preferably of a sufficient size to receive both of the sticksof the flag accommodated by said holder. This central loop 29 constitutes a frictional holding means for biting upon the flag sticks, when they are spread so as to enter the loop, 30 formed at the lower ends of the wire,.for preventing the stick from slipping in said sockets. By making the portion of the wire which .forms the loop 29'so as to extend transversely between the legs of the holder, and-by bending the Wire on the leg opposite totheloop into-a transverse loop 31, the loopcan be given a springin action, so as to further'exert a yielding. rictional hold" upon the flag sticks, In this form of the device, the lower ends. of the wires constituting the bodyportion of the holder 32 are spread apart the desired distance,,and the ends are bent into circularform' to provide the loops 30.

Devices made slmilar to that shown in Fig. 11, may be arranged so that a succession of them may be suspended or hung one upon the other, to afford any number of flag stick receiving sockets. Thus as shown in Fig. 13, the body portion 32 may be made like the device shown in Fig. 11, but a wire 33 may be extended acrossthe bottom to connect the sockets 30. By forming a hook 34 on the next holder below, it maybe hung upon the said wire 33. In this instance, it is also well to form a loop 35 in said wire 33 to receive the hooked end 34 and prevent the parts from shifting with respect to each other. g

This device of Fig. 13 may be further modified by spreading the upper ends 36 of the lower members of the series, and placing their hooked ends 37 in the socket rings 30 of the upper member 32, thus thoroughly bracing and holding each member of the series with respect to the other. It will thus be evident that many forms of the device may be employed, having one or more body portions with socket means for receiving sticks or rods, and frictional means for pre- I venting their slipping in the socket means, all within the spirit and scope of the invention.

What is claimed is:

1. A flag holder comprising a wire bent to form a suspending loop, and having circular bent portions formed therein to constitute stick receiving sockets, the said wire being also bent between said loops to grip and frictionally hold sticks placed in the said loop.

2. A flag holder comprising a wire bent double and having an intermediate plate connecting the legs thereof, the said wire having portions thereof bent to form helical sockets adapted to receive the sticks of a flag, the said helical sockets having an angular bend adapted to bear frictionally upon the flag sticks and preventing them from slipping longitudinally in the said sockets.

3. A flag holder having a succession of holding devices formed with spreading legs having stick receiving sockets, transverse members connecting said sockets and torming supporting means for the neXt device below, and hooked means upon the lower device for suspending them upon said cross members. 7

4. A flag holder comprising a wire bent so as to form a pair of diagonally disposed logs, each of said legs having an eye formed thereon at the end, and a loop intermediate of the end and junction with the other leg, said eyes and said loops being adapted to support a pair of flags in crossed relation on the holder. Y

5. A flag holder comprising a wire bent so as to form a pair of diagonally disposed legs, each of said legs having an eye formed thereon at the end, and a loop intermediate of the end and junction with the other leg, said legs being adapted to spread apart sufficiently to move said loops into registration for holding a pair of flags in crossed relation on said holder.

6. A flag holder comprising a wire bent to esa-2W form a pair of diagonally disposed legs, each of said legs having an eye formed therein at the end, and a loop formed there'- in intermediate of the end and" the junction of the other leg, the looped portions of said legs being normally spread apart and out of registration, and being capable of movement into registration with each other for firmly holding the flag sticks insertible there-.

through and through said eyes.

7. A flag holder comprising an integral wire having resilient spreading legs, a flag holding socket formed on each of said legs for holding a single flag stick, and a loop formedon each of said legs and spaced substantially from said socket, said loops having an area suffici'ent to accommodate a pair of flag sticks, and being adapted to resiliently engage the same for holding the flag in crossed relation.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses CAssnLL SEVERANOE, EARLE R. POLLARD.

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